PLANET CHOCKO – art/music/movies/beyond

The end of the year always marks the beginning of a fresh calendar for sales & marketing of new model year motorcycles. It’s that time again in December when the New York International Motorcycle Show rolls around to the Jacob Javitz Convention center and the collection of moto nerds starts to pool together to drool over high powered machinery. This year was quite strange and refreshing due to the warmer weather – not complaining here. Saturday was also tagged as SantaCon day when folks dressed in Santa gear bar hop until no end or at least till they are incoherent. The collection of drunk santas was supposed to mainly be centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and then over to the East Village for the finishing blows but Santas could be found all over Manhattan including the outskirts of the Motorcycle show and especially by the bars by Penn Station.

I parked my car on 21st Street between 8th & 9th ave before I headed uptown to meet with Steve from Unseen Films blog and his dad (fellow cycle nerds as well) at the Jacob Javitz Center for the NY IMS. I stopped off at an outpost of the famed Sullivan Street bakery on 9th ave for a heavy dose of coffee and a scrumptious banana/chocolate chip olanda for body fuel. I needed a serious shot in the arm of caffeine and sugar before trolling the floor of the Javitz. I continued uptown and entered the 30th street entrance to the High Line park to resume the scenic route to the motorcycle show. I have never walked the High line going towards Hells Kitchen and wow, they really did a great job in re-purposing the elevated railroad tracks with greenery & scenery! There is a lot of construction going around and below the High Line in this area but the park itself which runs all the way to 34th street is pretty darn cool. The view overlooking the railroad yard is amazing as well as the view ropes of the Hudson fading into New Jersey.

Soon enough the serene walk ended and I quickly bumped into the Javitz Center to unite with like minded riders! My main goal of the day was to get a glance of the new Triumph Bonneville T120, sit on the Honda CB1100 & Harley Davidson Sportster Seventy Two, & see how the Suzuki Bandit S 1250 felt! Mission accomplished & more. I discovered I really liked the look and feel of the Ducati Scrambler and the Ducati Monster 821 especially the model with the white paint job. The 3 wheeler roadster from Polaris – the Slingshot looked cool as hell! If I had 25k to throw around, she would definitely be in my toy vehicle arsenal! The Indian motorcycles including the Scout and the Indian Chief Dark Horse caught my eye as well.

The NY IMS this year or at least on Saturday didn’t seem quite as large, vendor wise as well as with the number of attendees like in years past or maybe the crowds came later on in the day? We still had fun seeing all the vehicle eye-candy! Enjoy some of the photos from the show below and if you ride – ride safe and if you don’t ride – be safe!

(a piece on Indian Larry)

(Indian Larry Motorcycle)

(Polaris Slingshot)

(royal-ensfield-continental-gt)

(Indian scout 60 hooligan racer)

(2016 Triumph Bonneville T120)

(Ducati Monster 821)

(2014 Honda cb1100)

(2016 harley sportster 72)

(2016 Suzuki Bandit S 1250)

(2016 ducati scrambler)

(Yamaha custom cafe)

(Widow Jane)

(Design Worx Customs – Custom Baggers)

(Bagger all graffed up & dedicated to the 5 Boros of NYC – Design Worx Customs)


(Badass “Green Bagger” by Design Worx Customs)

(Kawasaki Vulcan Custom)

(The Obama)

(21 Helmets created by 21 Artists)

(Some of the Helmets that were handpainted by the 21 Helmets/21 Artists project)

(Suzuki Hayabusa)

(kawasaki ninja h2r)

(Hog w/ Graffix)

(Yamaha Star Bolt)

(The Bullet)

(kawasaki vulcan s custom)

(Indian Trike)

(honda cb750 custom)

(The Street Shark)

(2016 indian chief dark horse)

(patches and more patches)